Have this in mynde, sires, I yow preye;
If that ye be discreet and resonable,
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Ye wol her holde the more excusable.
And wher men seyn, 'in man is stedfastnesse,
And woman is of her corage unstable,'
Who may of Adam bere swich witnesse?
Telleth me this:—was he nat chaungeable?
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They bothe weren in a caas semblable,